Nattie’s metaverse romance began with anonymous texting. At first “C” would admit only to living in a nearby town. Nattie eventually learned “Clem” was a man with a solitary office job like hers. For Nattie “lived, as it were, in two worlds”—the world of office tedium and an online world where “she did not lack social intercourse.”
The metaverse isn't here yet, but it already has a long history
